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Tales fans, Namco Bandai is about to announce the next game in the Tales of series. There is a teaser site up for the next main or as Hideo Baba likes to say "mothership title. " Our guess is this will be for Tales of Zestiria since Namco Bandai...

Earlier today, we got new details from a Dengeki PlayStation magazine report on Atlus' upcoming Persona 5, which talked about how the game will be an RPG that sends a strong message of catharsis, after overcoming trials to free yourself from your ...

Pop diva Katy Perry stirred up a hornet&rsquo;s nest by giving a performance of her song &ldquo;Unconditionally&rdquo; at last night&rsquo;s American Music Award in geisha inspired style surrounded by corny symbols from Japanese culture 101.

Earlier in the year, Siliconera reported that Steins;Gate, which is being brought to the west by JAST USA, would be rated by the ESRB prior to its western release. The game has finally been rated, and has unsurprisingly come away with an M (Mature...

The official Silver Spoon anime website announced the opening and ending theme songs of the 2nd season of the anime. Japanese rock band Fujifabric will perform the show's opening theme, "Life". The single for the song will be released on February 12.

While Masashi Kishimoto's Naruto manga may appear to be preparing for its final phase, Namco Bandai is chugging along undeterred. This week's issue of Shonen Jump announces Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm Revolution, which is set for a 2014...

Konami has a treat for LovePlus fans with the upcoming release of New LovePlus+. So many pluses. The new version of New LovePlus will include new scenarios and travel destinations, and will also be available in three different limited edition Nint...

Shochiku Sets 'Amazing Twins' Blu-ray Anime Release Posted by Chris Beveridge November 26, 2013 at 10:00 PM Amazing Twins The slow but steady roll out for Amazing Twins continues as we recently got a new promo and some cast information for Junichi...

We have previously reported that a live-action Lupin III film will star Shun Oguri (Detective Conan, Hana Yori Dango) as Lupin III. Just recently, we learned more of the additional cast members for the upcoming adaptation of the classic Monkey Pun...

Geek rapper Richie Branson has returned with new #otakutuesday hip hop, inspired by anime like Kill La Kill, Fist of the North Star, and Valvrave the Liberator. He's kicked things off with the Attack on Titan homage "Against the Wall.

Seven Seas has laid out the plans for additional Strike Witches manga releases for 2014 and 2015 following Strike Witches: Maidens in the Sky, due to start in February 2014. We take to the sky once again!

「ノヴ × ト × モラウ」 (Nobu × to × Morau) "Knov × And × Morel" I don't want to say that episode was tense, but if the phone had rang while I was watching it I suspect I'd have bitten my hand off. Hunter X Hunter continues it's longest stretch without Gon...

Sentai Filmworks Reveals 'Nyan Koi'! Anime Dub Cast Posted by Chris Beveridge November 26, 2013 at 03:31 PM Nyan Koi! While we previously knew that the dub for Nyan Koi! was going to be directed by Steven Foster, it's only now that we know the cas...

Japanese actor and singer Koki Tanaka has admitted via his twitter account that he is an otaku and is proud to be one. He tweeted that he truly loves watching anime and geeky movies, playing video games as well as reading manga and light novels as...

Remember when Typing of the Dead: Overkill was suddenly dropped on the unprepared masses? Now the downloadable zombie-blasting typing tool can kill with even fancier words thanks to the Shakespeare DLC, which hit the Steam store earlier today for $2.

Now that New Atelier Rorona: The Origin Story of the Alchemist of Arland is out in Japan, 4Gamer has a lengthy video showing off about ten minutes of gameplay footage. See how the remake&mdash;which features updated character models and environmen...

Of course they do! Well, at least in one town. Hakone, Japan, which is located outside Tokyo, has Neon Genesis Evangelion electric car changers. Evangelion is set in Hakone, which is renamed "Tokyo-3" for the anime.

A deluxe set for each girl will retail for about US$320 Game developer Konami announced that its New Love Plus+ 3DS game will be released next Spring in three different 3DS XL (sold as LL in Japan) variant packs.

TV Tokyo's Sakiyomi Jan Bang! , a variety show that features Shueisha manga such as the Jump family of anthologies, recently did another show of Naruto, and on it they passed along a message from manga author Masashi Kishimoto in which he more tha...

This weekend, Atlus revealed that the next installment of the Persona series in Persona 5 will be coming to the PlayStation 3 in winter 2014 in Japan. This week's Dengeki PlayStation magazine shares some additional tidbits of information on the u...

It's been in the works for a bit but now MangaGamer has set the preorder for the Kara no Shojo Limited Edition Hard Copies are available to get in on. Starting December 9th, 2013, they'll be opening the hard-copy section of the website allowing f...

Coming up in December is something that will definitely be fun from PA Works with their True Tears x Hanasaku Iroha x Tari Tari Joint Festival concert that was held this past April. The concert is doing some early promotion as there's a new 90 tea...

Continuing our look at rock and Heavy Metal Idol groups. nIo [new Idol order] has a series of short videos called "nIo Begins" . The videos show how these "insane gimmick" Idols reached their breaking point to create this group ,through violence a...

Recommended Jpop♂ Reading: November 26, 2013 Thennary's Picks Arashi top the yearly total sales ranking with 13. 91 Billion Yen – aramatheydidnt Of course the year is not over yet so AKB48 still stands a good chance to displace them again.

NEWS Shibata Ayumi will resume her activities as a solo artist after she transfers agencies. Currently, she will use Shibata Ayumi for her activities in entertainment, but she will start to use ayumi shibata for her activities as an artist.

Tweet Pin It Miku Hatsune shuffle to the side… there's a new rhythm game coming to the Playstation Vita and it's BEARY weird. Persona 4: Dancing All Night [ペルソナ４ ダンシングオールナイト], due to hit Japanese game shelves Fall 2014, takes the familiar cast of ...

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